antipop Free LaunchDaemon designed to prevent Mac OS X from turning off the sound system
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Free LaunchDaemon designed to prevent Mac OS X from turning off the sound system On many laptops (particularly on MacBooks and MacBook Pros), the sound system emits an audible pop or click when it goes to sleep. This is particularly noticeable when a low-impedence or externally-amplified device is plugged in to the laptop's line-out jack - users with sensitive headphones or amplified speakers often hear this pop when Mac OS X puts the laptop's sound hardware to sleep after 15-30 seconds of inactivity. The antipop software stops this pop from occuring.antipop uses Mac OS X's 'say' binary to speak a single space every 10 seconds. While this will not produce any audible output, it will prevent Mac OS X from putting the sound system to sleep. By default, antipop will only do this when the laptop is plugged-in -- when on battery, the sound system will sleep normally.NOTE: antipop is developed, licensed and provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike License 3.0. What's New in This Release: · antipop is now a LaunchAgent. I found that it wouldn't work reliably as a LaunchDaemon. Shouldn't be a big deal, and it's not a bad idea to have the sound system power off if the machine is idling at the login window anyways.

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